HALF-FULL REPORT 05/28/10

Fantasies aside, like Zero having a total mental breakdown and resigning, it’s not clear how this week could have been realistically better.

The Gulf Oil Spill is rapidly becoming Zero’s Katrina.  Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu and Democrat guru James Carville – both Louisianan – are just unloading on Zero for his insouciant incompetence.  The anger and contempt that lots of Democrats – Democrats – feel towards him now is growing.  Even Chrissie Tingle-leg Matthews is blasting him.

More and more Americans are realizing that the "damn hole" that needs to be plugged is the one between Zero’s nose and chin, which gushes verbal pollution far more destructive to America than any oil spill.

Then there is Sestak-gate.  It is a complete win-win.  It torpedoes Sestak’s chances to get elected, virtually handing Snarlin’ Arlen’s PA senate seat to Republican Pat Toomey. 

And, as Jack Kelly points out, most people will decide it’s the Chicago Boys in the White House who are lying, not a Navy Admiral turned Congressman.  Thus it adds to growing public belief that the Zero Regime doesn’t tell the truth and cannot be trusted.  Adding further is Republican insistence that Attorney General Holder appoint a special prosecutor to investigate what could be an impeachable offense by Zero.

Plus the economy continues to sink, the DOW is tanking, gold is rising and so is unemployment.  All of this is great news.  The worse things are, the worse things are going to be for the Dems in November.  Yep, the glass is more than half-full this week.

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Want more good news?  In Washington State, Republican Dino Rossi formally announced he’s running for Dem Patty Murray’s senate seat.  Rossi was elected governor in 2004 – which the Dems proceeded to steal from him by demanding serial recounts until they could cheat by 129 phoney votes out of 2.8 million cast.

Murray is by Capitol Hill consensus the stupidest member of the Senate (quite an achievement considering the competition).  She and Rossi were just about even in the polls before he announced.  He’ll win by a margin that the Dems will not be able to crookedly overcome. 

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Now let’s talk about North Korea.  As many of you know, I have secured permission to take a small group into North Korea this September.  It is a chance to witness the world’s last true Stalinist dictatorship – and safely.  There’s simply no chance we’ll be unsafe – our NK hosts will make very sure of that.

The worst that could happen is that one or more of us cannot behave themselves and we are asked to leave (fly back to Beijing) for not being "respectful."  And we will be respectful – it’s part of the game.

And a game is what we are coming to see – the Arirang Mass Games, an unbelievable spectacle of tens of thousands of people dressed in every bright rainbow color performing coordinated synchronous dances.  There’s nothing like it on earth – then again, there’s nothing like North Korea either.

We’re doing lots more, like chartering a plane to remote regions of the country, and if you want the info & itinerary, email [email protected] and he’ll send it to you.  I can only take 15 folks and have three spaces left.

But how can it be safe when the Koreas are about to wage war?  The answer is, they are not.  Did you see that report about how South Korea has "lost track" of the Nork subs, one of which sank the ROK navy ship Cheonan on March 26?  That was a head fake.

Soon enough, one of those Nork subs will suffer an unfortunate event and disappear into the briny deep.  Quid pro quo, no one will talk about it, and the war prep and talk will be gone with the wind.  Meanwhile, thousands of kids are out on the streets of Pyongyang and elsewhere in Norkland practicing for the Mass Games. 

China does not want a war between the Koreas.  So there won’t be one.  That’s the bottom line behind the Nork bluster.

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Speaking of China makes me think of the Caribbean micro-nation of Antigua.  Dominica, as you learned this week, has 365 rivers.  Tiny Antigua (ahn-tee-gah), just 108 square miles, has 365 beaches – any one of which would be world-famous beautiful on other islands.  Antigua has hundreds of them – the beauty of the place is overwhelming. 

You may know of Antigua because of Allen Stanford, accused of running a multi-billion dollar Ponzi investment scheme based in the island nation.  (Note the "accused" – many informed people I know think he didn’t pay off or "donate" to the right Dems in Washington who then sent the FBI after him).

But when I think of Antigua, and can tear myself away from the beaches and the beauty, I think of the Red Chinese.

You learned in Dominica that the current PM (Prime Minister) Roosevelt Skerrit has sold his country’s soul to Casto, Chavez, and Red China.  So has the PM of Antigua (the official country name is "Antigua and Barbuda," Barbuda being a small ancillary island nearby), Baldwin Spencer.

China is pouring money into Antigua, and Spencer is using the money to bribe politicians to be on his side, and bribe voters with government goodies.  How many Chinese are here, I asked an Antiguan.  He answered:  "Numberless."  Workers to line streets with street lights, shopkeepers to operate laundries and small Chinese restaurants, they are all over the island and Chicom money sets them up.

This is happening in almost every Caribbean nation – every one of which has a vote in the UN General Assembly.  Antigua’s 85,000 people have one UN vote, just as America’s 320 million.  China sees easy pickings for UN votes and diplomatic support among the Caribbean mico-states – and loves it that we are letting it happen right under our noses in our backyard.

There just might be a bit of good news here, at least regarding Antigua.  While Skerritt in Dominica has a monopoly of power, Spencer in Antigua does not.  Parliament has 17 members, of which the pro-business, anti-Communist opposition has 7.  A prominent Antiguan businessman confided in me that several MPs are so worried over selling Antigua to China that they are going to switch.  A vote of no confidence is expected by September, resulting in Spencer’s fall, new elections, and a new government which will kick the Chinese out.

This depends on their getting assistance and support from the US.  I advised them to wait until November when a new Republican majority can demand (and appropriate money for) such support.  They won’t get a thing, I told them, from Zero.

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Back in July of 2009, the HFR talked about a remarkable new technology unlocking massive amounts of "unconventional gas," natural gas trapped in shale or coal-bed deposits.  This week (5/25), Bloomberg ran a big story on what is now known as "shale gas" that had some eye-opening revelations and eye-closing stupid (or on purpose?) mistakes.

First, it is just a marvelous inspiration to anyone of a certain age to learn that this world-changing technology was invented by a guy while he was in his 70s and 80s – George Mitchell. 

Second, the massiveness of the shale gas deposits is stunning.  One single deposit, known as the Marcellus Shale, has over 260 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas – enough to supply current US needs for 23 years.  There are several other such deposits, right here in the US.

Natural gas extracted from shale deposits can enable America to be energy independent from Moslem oil – and that is why the left and the enviros hate it enough to smear and lie about it.  The Bloomberg piece repeats all these calumnies.

The main one is that the technique of "fracking" will contaminate ground water.  This is a lie.  Fracking of shale deposits takes place well below drinkable water strata.  The article does quote a gas executive saying "all Marcellus wells that will ever be built will use less water than one nuclear plant; damage from coal mines is much worse than shale drilling."

While Bloomberg never compares the pollution threat of shale gas to coal, the Forum’s Skye confirms the executive is correct (Skye has patents in oil/gas extraction technologies): 

"Coal mining is a far worse polluter than gas wells, and occurs above drinkable water strata.  Look up reports about persistent underground coal mine fires – some of which have been burning for decades and have caused the evacuation of entire towns because of leakage of carbon monoxide (which is very poisonous, unlike natural gas) into homes."

Shale gas revolutionizes energy production, cost, and our capacity for energy independence.  And as Bloomberg notes: "Gas is about two-thirds cheaper than oil and greener too. It produces 117 pounds of carbon dioxide per million British thermal units (MMBtu) of energy equivalent compared with 156 for gasoline and 205 for coal."

Still the enviros hate it – not because they care about the Holy Environment but because they hate themselves and all human beings, and want us to freeze in the dark.  There could not be clearer proof of their perverse sado-masochism that their lies about shale gas.

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Oh, by the way – a number of you have asked for an update on what I have heard from Ruth’s Chris regarding An Incident Of Which You Should Be Aware.  The answer is:  almost nothing.  I got a call from a fellow named Arthur Forgette, an assistant to Ruth’s Chris’ CEO Ken Toomy, who used weasel words like "unfortunate" to describe what happened and offered no apology whatever.  I have yet to hear from Mr. Toomy.

Update:
I received this email message Saturday (5/29) morning:

Dear Dr. Wheeler :

I was informed that my Vice President Arthur Forgette was able to make contact with you recently to discuss the issues you had a few weeks ago in our Tyson’s Corner restaurant. Arthur has responsibility for that store and all the staff and management that operates it.

Although I did not receive your letter for some reason I was made aware by Arthur the day after it happened and have been monitoring it ever since. We are not happy about the occurrence and appreciate you bringing it to our attention. As I believe Arthur stated to you we are taking all actions possible to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

I hope your travels are treating you well and I wish you the happiest of Memorial Day holidays. I understand your son is off to war and I wish him all safety and appreciate the service. It is also an important holiday for me as a number of my family members have served in the past.

I am confident that Arthur is taking all the appropriate actions but will continue to monitor. Thank you again.

Kevin Toomy
President Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse

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We close with the HFR Hero of the Week – an unnamed woman in Saudi Arabia.  Saudi is infested with these religious police (The Committee for the Preservation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice or Mutaween) – all men of course – who will actually whip with stiff canes a woman if she is showing an inch of skin or is otherwise doing something the Mutaween guy doesn’t like.

So this young unmarried couple was walking together – just walking, not hand-holding or smooching – in a park in the town of Al-Mubarraz, and a Mutaween thug proceeds to whip them.  The woman’s boyfriend fainted with fright – whereupon she clenches her fist and smashes the Mutaween thug right in the mouth. 

And she’s just getting started.  She beats the crap out of him so badly he has to be taken to the hospital with bloody bruises all over his face and body.

This is my kind of woman.  Saudi and the entire Moslem world needs millions just like her.  As TTP has been saying for years, Moslem men who treat women as sub-human have tiny little zibbs – that’s Arabic slang for the male organ.  At last, one Moslem woman stood up to a zibbless Moslem man and gave him what he deserved.  She’s our hero this week.